From mistaking non-white congressional aides for waiters to phoning around to find out if he’d shaken hands with a gay person, it turns out that the ex-president is literally a bottomless pit of hate.

Of all of Donald Trump’s terrible qualities, the one redeeming one that has always shined through is his steadfast belief that all humans should be treated with fairness and respect, no matter their race, religion, country of origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Indeed, not once during his four years in Washington did he ever give anyone any reason to believe he had even a drop of prejudice or discriminatory inclinations running through his body. “People could learn a lot from how Donald Trump approaches the world,” even his most ardent critics would frequently admit, noting that if Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, Anne Frank, Harvey Milk, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Moses were all alive today they’d have great things to say about the 45th president.

Yes, obviously, we’re just f--king with you. In reality, Trump has and likely always will be a colossal bigot, particularly regarding race—though when it comes to groups of people to discriminate against, in this one instance, he does not discriminate. While the examples backing up this claim could fill an entire series of books that we do not have time to type out right now, just a few of the lowlights include:

*Calling for the execution of five Black and Latino teenagers;

*Spearheading an entire movement around the lie that the country’s first Black president wasn’t born in the United States;

*Kicking off his bid for the presidency by describing Mexicans as rapists and criminals;

*Tweeting an image of Hillary Clinton’s face atop a pile of cash next to the Star of David and the phrase, “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!”;

*Banning travel to the US from seven predominantly Muslim nations;

*Claiming that a group of neo-Nazis contained some “very fine people”;

*Telling four congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” despite the fact that three-quarters of those women “came from” the US;

*Describing Baltimore, whose population is majority Black, as a “disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess” where “no human being” would “want to live”

*Pardoning a guy a US Department of Justice expert said oversaw the worst pattern of racial profiling by a law enforcement agency in US history;

*Banning transgender people from joining the military;

*Ranting that American Jews aren’t loyal enough to Israel;

*Suggesting Jews control the media;

*Throwing an absolute shit fit over the removal of statue of a Confederate general who thought Black people should be white people’s property, and insisting the general was one of the greatest military leaders of all time.

That’s a lot—and yet, somehow, just a drop in the bucket. So while it’s literally the opposite of surprising, it’s still stomach-churning nevertheless to learn, via New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s new book, that there’s apparently an entire storage facility worth of anecdotes re: Trump being a horrible bigot that we’d never even heard about.

Source: Bess Levin/Vanityfair.com

Date Posted: Friday, September 30th, 2022 , Total Page Views: 414